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The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29
The Troubles of the Rawsons.

CHICAGO Nov. 26.-The marital troubles of
banker Stephen w. Rawson and his wife are
once moro brought to public attention by the
publication of a letter to Mrs. Rawson from
her second husband, Charles G. Lee The let
ter reads:
Mrs Nj. l.. Rawson:
Dear Madame-I have just learned of your sad
troubles and write interfere for the protection OF
your and my child. A clipping from the New York
World, mailed me, states that your husband, Mr.
and therefore offspring is illegitimate. That
tainly is very cowardly thrust, and cannot con
ceive why Mr.. r. should resort to such method &c
blight the name of pure and innocent child like little
Dot You certainly have the certificate of the judge
at New Orleans. where your divorce from Staymaker
was obtained. The records of August 1879, In the
clerks Office Louisville, will show that sour
riage license regular. Had not been addicted TO
habits too extremely convivial, l believe it would
to INV child and its mother in guarding their honor.
The purity of your wifely relation to during
welded not only entities you to my protection.
but also 10 the sympathy of the pubic when your
character is assailed My heart goes out to Willie
whom loved and treated Il believe he will admit itD
as my own child. Tell him, for to bear up
fully and not to fear that Chicago jury viii con-
denim him for protecting the honor and good name of
his mother and little sister. Give my love to my
protect and shield her with his life. Yours truly
CHARLES G. LEE.
Mrs Rawson's attorney says Lee IS a despe-
rate man. and intimates that ne may come to
Chicago and make it warm for the banker. who
has not yet recovered from the wound inflicted
by Ralph William Lee, his step-son.
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29

A MOVEMENT is on foot in New York to
form militia veteran reserve, composed of
veterans who have served their time in militia
or volunteer companies. The idea is to keep
up old military associations, and at the same
time form a reserve force available at any
time for the preservation of the peace or
enforcement of law. Members of the old
Seventh Regiment have taken the matter in
hand and the movement is likely to be
successful. It is step in the right direction.
In popular government, that maintains no
standing army to speak of. the people them
selves should maintain enough organization
to meet emergencies and to enforce the law
on needed occasions
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29
THE ATLANTA CONTEST.
The Courageous Editors of the Constitution
Express Their Opinions in an Outside Paper.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2S.-The ''wetr and the
dry editors of the Atlanta Constitution give
their opinions to the world on the subject OF
why Atlanta went wet NJ. Evan p. Howell,
the wet oditor, says:
'The prohibition law had been tried for two
years and it had proved failure. The Prohl-
bitlonistS claim that it did not have air trial
The constant agitation of prohibition for years
has been the only bad result have noted so
far as 1T affects the city. There were certainly
large quantities of liquor brought into the city
every day from neighboring cities, and the large
majority given for anti iprohibition was not only
protest against the law. bat against the strife
and bitterness engendered by the first
paign- / am certain that the conservative men
on both sides will come together and throw
around the retail sale of liquor all necessary
straints. and that it viii he better for the city.
The part the women took in the election at the
polls has been greatly exaggerated
Henry w. Grady. the dry editor, says:
s"The defeat of prohibition was not unex-
pected. From first to last the negroes were al
most solidly against it. Much of this due
to the influence of Yellowstone Kit. rich and
shrewd medicine vender. worshiped by the ne
groes. who spoke night after night at the anti
meetings, carried on the shoulders of negro
men. The part taken in the campaign by the
ladies was not significant Prohibition was not
beaten ON its merits. The law was too extreme,
it being impossible to get medicinal or sacra-
mental wine without Violating it Its admins
tration has been often unwlse. Had 1t not
been for these things the undeniable good
it worked would have overcome even the great
negro majority aeainst it. Atlanta will not
suffer seriously. The bar-room as it existed
insolent. political, corruptng and ruling-is
thing of the past. conference viii be held
to devise plan upon which the people can
unite. Not the slightest ill-feeling survives the
contest, whicn without precedent in vigor
and aggression. A City Council is to be elected on
Dec. 6. In fighting for that the leaders of the
two factions will probably unite on a ticket of
the best men in the city, and will seek TO elect it
by compact of the conservative element of
both sides. The Constitution, which by reason
of division of opinion among the proprietors, took
no editorial position in the contest viii urge a
union of the best elements of both factions to
control the situation"
ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 28-The result of the
prohibition election was not declared to-day, as
it was expected to be, owing to notice of con-
test filed by several prohibitionists. 1t is not
thought that the contest will amount to much.
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29

THE President is said to be very nervous
lest Jefferson Davis may die during the next
few months and compel him to show his col
ors. jeff was once Secretary Of War, and
Under the precedent established in the case OF
Jacob Thompson, ex-rebel and ex-Secretary of
the Interior. the War Department flag would
have to be half -masted FOR Davis. This, of
course, would raise a row in the North. but
not to do it would raise a row in the South.
And so Cleveland is hoping that JEFF will not
die during the presidential year. If the
dilemma should arise. the President might
meet it somewhat as he has the civilservice
reform question, by hoisting one flag to the
fore for the North and putting another at
half-mast for the South.
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29

REFERRING to the recent New York cleo
tions, it is announced by authority that the
President resisted tremendous mugwump
pressure all through the campaign, and
manned steadfast to the end So the great
monumental fraud of the century is preparing
to throw off the civil-service reform mask. and
appear in his true colors. He used the mug
wumps as long as he needed them, and now
throws them aside like a squeezed lemon.
AS long he thought New York was doubt
full he adhered to his course of duplicity and
deceit, and played the civil-service reform
dodge. Now that he feels strong enough to
go it alone, he proposes to cut loose from the
mugwumps and gives notice that, in spite of
tremendous pressure, he remained steadfast
to the end" How are the mugwumps fallen.
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29

THE present political crisis in Franco pre-
septs one curious feature in the apparent indif-
erance of the people and the press as TO the
outcome. Either they are utterly bewildered,
or else they are not enough concerned about
1t to indicate any choice or preference as to
Mr.. Grevy's successor. Perhaps this is a
result of the habit of leaving the management
Of public affairs to the government and those
who make a business of it. But that is not
the American way, nor good way.
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29

third-class mail is rivaled by the recommen-
dation of the Third Assistant that second-class
mail be stamped with adhesive stamps the same
as other postal matter. When this able gentle
man loses his present situation he ought to
have no difficulty with such law in force
in securing job of licking postage stamps in
a newspaper Office with a regular edition of
fifty or hundred thousand copies. Or he
might prefer place as canceling clerk, say in
the New York postofice, where the pieces of
second-class mail matter rival in number the
sands of the sea. It is such great minds as
this that make the postal department under
the present administration blundering, inef-
dcient concern, and trial to public patience.
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29
A Seismic Curiosity.

COLUMBIA, S. c., Nov. 28.-Some curious
earthquake phenomena have just been discoys
cred in an isolated section between Summervilie
and Charleston, which bears terrible evidences
of being one of the three foci of the great shock
of August. 1886 The ground for miles is liter
allv overturned by the efforts of the terrific
forces to escape from the depths of the earth.
In consequence can be seen many deep pits. on
white sand as seen only on the seashore. From
the white sand thus upheaved has sprung
dense growth of sea plants. such as is found on
wind currents on the sea islands of this coast
1t is evident that the seeds from which these
plants have sprung have been elected from great
depths, where they have lain buried during
MANY centuries.
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29

Mr.. EDWARD ATKINsoN's suggestion in
regard to the purchase of the maritime prov
inces Of Canada by the United States has
excited SO much comment that he has fol-
lowed 1t up with letter 10 the Boston Cham
Der of Commerce, urging the matter seriously
and with considerable force. He argues that
the interests of the maritime provinces are
entirely different from those of other parts of
the Dominion; that they are not necessary to
the integrity of the Dominion government.
aud are physically and commercially allied to
the United States. He argues further that
the outside purchase price of s50,o00,0oo
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29

ouell it in another way. This was by calling
out the militia. Of course the militia were
ready for that kind of service, and they re-
sponded promptly and repaired to the scene of
the uprising" Almost Immediately after
their arrival there was "a collision" between
them and the negroes. resulting, according to
the first dispatch. in killing six negroes. But
special from Thibodesux, on the 25th. says:
s'Tne deaths in the town have been twelve.
To-day the bodies of three dead negroes were
found in thicket They had evidently been
shot in Wednesdays affair, crawled into the
thicket and died there. The discovery of
these and other bodies renders it probable
that the story told by the negroes of thirty
dead may not be exaggerated" So it is evil
dent that from twenty-five to thirty negroes
were killed. AS usual, no whites were killed.
The dispatch above quoted further says:
There are but few negroes yet to be seen,
the majority being still in hiding in the woods
and swamps. The militia to-day visited all
the neighboring plantations and found many
of the negroes at work, but very much demor-
allied" The militia seem to have arbitrated
the strike very effectually. The negroes
doubtless concluded as between working at
the old wages and being killed, they had bet
ter choose the former, so those who had not
been killed went to work, though, as might be
supposed, every much demoralized." 1t will
probably be long time before they will strike
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29

THE Rev. DR.. Parker is advertised to preach
in Plymouth Church next Sunday. Deacon
S. V. White has written a letter saying the
isfactory explanation is made OF the euiogy
business A telegram from DIR. Parker, pub
lished this morning, is likely to put the Doc
tor in better light before the country and
Plymouth Church.
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29

A PUBLIC distribution of clothing and mon
ey to needy voters and their families on the
day before election is not only not an indict-
able offense, but is equally effective in secur-
ing majority, and is perhaps not more expen-
sive in the end than the favorite Democratic
shotgun method or old fashioned bribery.
The yellowstone Kit" plan will doubtles
commend itself to the great party of reform.
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29
Murphy's Method.
Chicag Tribune.


There is no hope in political prohibition It
has been tested and found wanting over and
over again 1t persistently evades the only
road to the cure of the drink habit by making
war upon the saloons alone Mr. Murphy
wrestles with the drinker. He recognizes the
necessity of curing the individual desire and the
fact that the appetite for liquor cannot be con-
trolled by law Hence his appeal for self alb
stention to the reason and to the moral and
spiritual nature of the drinker On this line Of
work every church in Chicago ought to coop
ara+a with him
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29

A FRATERNITY of vivisectionists is said to
have been one Of the many fraternities repre-
sented at the gathering in Trafalgar square
on Sunday. Vivisectionists seem to have
taken very active part in the proceedings at
Limerick also, but they were found on the
police force at that place, and vivisected
peaseable people in the crowd with clubs.
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND seems to have re-
scinded his order requiring bureau and depart
ment reports to be withheld until after his mes
sage was sent to Congress Their advance ap-
pearance this year is perhaps due to his discov-
ery that by a simultaneous publication they di-
vide the honors and distract public attention
from his own great effort
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29

THE publication in American newspapers of
three column cable specials describing the first
appearance of Bernhardt IN new play must
have tendency to arouse in the minds of tired
subscribers regretful longings for the days
when ''news" was carried by pony express and
printed once week. Perhaps. though, it is
hardly proper to class certain Eastern dailies as
American newspapers
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29

CONGRESSMAN SAM Cox is nothing If not
witty. He is building a fine house in
Washington. and says he wants to make his
wife comfortable, and is determined to do 1t II
he has to spend his entire fortune. 1t is pleas
ant to see such devotion as that. Another
pleasant fact is that Mr.. and Mrs Cox are as
devoted as two lovers. and while she did have a
fortune he has added to it.
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29

THE Third Assistant Postmaster general
ssems To possess the same order of intellect
which distinguishes his chief Mr. Nilas's re-
cent exhibition of idiocy in prohibiting the
printing of business cards on the wrappers Of
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29

TRANSACTIONS at the indianapolis clearing
house for the week ending November 20,
amounted to 81 100. 739, an increase of over Is
per cent on the corresponding week Of last
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29
Telephone Calls.

If it were not for the frantic efforts OF po-
lice and government officials to keep order,
people in Ireland might hold public meetings
in the greatest of peace and harmony.
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29
won't You Turn IL Roundc

st. Louis Globe Democrat
Here's magnificent ticket. that would get
every Republican vote in the land: For Presi-
dent Joseph r. Hawley, of Connecticut; for
Vice president, Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29
Ex-Mayor Puzzled.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

Carter Harrison of Chicago, writes from
Toxic Japan, that in that city of million peo-
pie there is not one drunkard This naturally
surprises the ex-Mayor of Chicago; and when he
goes further and reflects on the impossihility of
a municipal campaign there. ne is lost in ina
bility to understand how tley do it
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29

A CINCINNATI physician claims to have dis
covered that the yeast germs IN turkey stutlng
made of stale bread will ferment and form the
poison known as tyrotoxicon. The attempt to
make Americans believe that any dough of that
kind turks in the Thanksgiving turkey is an at
tack on one of our most cherished institutions.
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29

THE former residents of Ohio, now living in
Topeka, Kan, have organized society and
adopted for motto, 1.-The sun OF ONO never
shone on the face of an ugly woman" SOY
What enormous sunbonnets they must wear.
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29
" HHt 40 4 - =.
Philadeiphi ia American.

Philadelph ia Amerlcan-
In response TO the inquiry, does anarchy pay
the public is Informed that Johann Most gers
ten dollars a week for writing his fiery edltori
alS
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29

BY all means Dakota ought to be admitted to
+be Union. 1t is shame to shut her out with
the thermometer below zero
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29
WINTERS COMING.

Close up the chinks in the windows new,
And button the shrunken doors:
Tack np the notice your desk,
And prepare for the winter bores.
oil City Blizzard
The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29
RFFoRr AND AFTF

Augustus used to rave and scold
Because Sophia cold;
But since they're wed, he says with vim
She makes it much too hot for him.
Detroit Free Press.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-10
Does Labor Produce all the Wealth


Rev. DR.. g. NJ. Steele, in Work and
Wages: "Is it really true that labor
produces all the wealth of the world p
Of course by labor here is meant the
putting forth of physical energy, other
wise the succeeding sentences have no
meaning. Does any one who thinks at all
about the subject believe that the great
factories, the DOCKS the vast buildings of
stone and brick and iron in our great
cities, the railroads, the mighty steam
ships, the complicated machines and in
Vulnerable other structures are the result
of manual labor alone? Suppose there is
a line of railway fifty miles in length to
be built, and five thousand steady, intelli-
gent and reliable laborers are told to go
and build it. Will they be able to build
the bridges, to make the deep cuts, to
construct the causeways through treach-
erous swamps, to calculate the grades,
and do other equally difficult parts of the
work? How many ordinary wage laborers
would it take to produce a Corliss engine,
the first of its kind? No; there must be
much beside muscular effort to attain these
results. There must be toll of brain, long
and protracted, and often exhausting
thought, sometime accompanied by great
sacrifices and great hardships. In order
to have extensive production there are re-
quired great mental qualities, some of
them of rare kind There is needed
power to contriye, to invent, to organize,
to direct, or little can be achieved. The
man WHO blows the organ might claim
that he produced all the music of the in
strument. 1t is true he is generally an
essential condition, but not by any means
the only or the most essential condition.
No more is manual labor the only or the
most essential condition of the production
of great wealth"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-10
ORDINANCE NO. 224.

Granting TO Frank %. Myer the Privilege
to Construct, Maintain and Operate n
street Railway in the City of Sacra-
mento, and Granting him the Right-of-
Way along certain Streets in said City.
TINE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CITY
L of Sacramento do oriain as follows:
SECTION l. The right and authority is hereby
given to Frank d. Myers, his successors and as
signs, to lay down and maintain for the term of
fifty years from and after the passage of this or.
dinance, single or doub' e-track railway, with
all the necessary and convenient tracks for
curves turnouts, switches, side-tracks and ap-
pendayes. and to propel cars thereon by the use
of either horses. mules, electricity or cables
driven by stationary engines, on, over and along
the following streets in the city of Sacramento :
Commencing at the center of street., at the
in, ersection of street and Twenty-fourth
street, and running along said Twenty-fourth
street to and across to the southern boundary
line of said city.
SECTION 2. The rate of fare in said cars shall
not exceed five (5) cents for any one fare to any
point on said road.
SECTION 3. The owner or owners of said rail
way shall pay to the city of Sacramento for
license for each car in daily use ON said railway
the sum of five ~ dollars per annum, which
shall entitle them to operate said road every
day in the year.
SECTION l. The tracks of said railway must be
constructed as nearly as practicable in the mid
die of said street
SECTION 5. The owner or owners of ssid rail
way must keen that portion of the street between
the rails and for two feet on either side thereof
IN the same cond1t1on OF improvement and re-
pair that the balance OF said street along the
line of said road is kept by the city authorities
or adjacent property owners.
SECTION {. The rate of speed on said cars
must not be greater than eight miles per hour
SECTION Z. The work on said railway must be
commenced within sixty days, and must be COM
pleted within one year from the date hereof
SECTION s. The wi!lful violation of any of the
provisions of this ordinance shall work a for
ieituTe of the rights herein granted.
SECTION 9. No poles shall be placed in the
street for use oil the road should electricity be
adopted a motive power for same
SECTION 10. This ordinance shall take effect
Immediately. EUGENE J. GREGORY,
President Board of Trustees.
Passed September 6, 1857.
E. II. MCKEE, Clerk. s7-I0t
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-10

THE LUCRETIA DEwBERRY.-A writer
who visited the original plantations in
Ohio when fruiting, says they are there
grown in rows eight or ten feet apart, with
plants four or five feet apart in the row,
forming a thick matted row or bed four or
five feet wide. They throw up fruit spurs
foot or more high, which are laden with
fruit as large as the Lawton blackberry,
without its hard core, and of Il most delici-
Gus spicy flavor. 1t ripens with the Gregg
raspberry, most favorable time for mark
citing. He considers it as hardy as the
Taylor, and as productive as the Snyder
F. X. Phoenix, the veteran nurseryman of
Walworth county, Wis, reports the Lucre-
tia as only moderately productive, but of
very fine quality. 1t does best on trellis,
and needs winter protection. Compare
lively, in his experience, the Wilson Ju-
Nor blackberry is more profitable, yet IN
ferior in quality to the Lucretia Dewberry.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-10

How TO BE HEALTHY-Mrs. Rose
Terry Cooke says that if American women
wish to be healthy they must learn to live
in fresh air. She advises them to open
their windows, wear flannel night-gowns,
and take jug of hot water to bed if they
are cold, but never to sleep with closed
windows, air all their clothes and their
room daily, eat simple, wholesome food
wear homeless waists, and button their
skirts on them, and take the heels off their
boots.-New York SIM.
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S. earle. f. ]. CRoLY.
earle 6 CROLY,
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS, ARE PRE-
" pared to do all kinds of work in their line,
in city or country. Principal place of business,
Sacramento. Shop, No. 1124 Second street, be-
tween K and L. Postofiice Box No. 4l0, Sacra-
mento. 4p-tf
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STAR MILLS AID MALT HOUSE,

I0Ie 1o1s, 1920, FIFTH STREET, sACRA-
lUIO. mento, NEUBOURG & Lagos, Pro-
prietors. Manufacturers of Malt and all kinds
of Meals. Would call special attention to our
Kiln-dried Cornmeal. Oatmeal, etc. Also, deal
ers in Hops, Corks, Produce Grain, Feed, and
general assortment of Brewers Supplies
81 Exchange sold on all Principal Cities in
Europe. II
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